Improvement in the processes of embossing felted fabrics



J"; F. GREENE. I PROCESS OF EMBOS SING FEL'IED FABRIC No. 193,945.Patented Aug. 7,.1877.

NFETERSI PHOTO-UTMDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

JOHN F. GREENE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESSES OF EMBOSSING FELTED FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,945, dated August7,1877; application file May 24, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN F. GREENE, of Brooklyn, in the'State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture ofOrnamental Felted Fabrics, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is an improvement in the manufacture ofornamental or filled fabrics, fully described hereinafter, whichconstitutes an available imitation of aBrussels, diagonal, or twilledfabric.

The further object of my invention is mechanism for producing the saidfabric.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view illustrating the mechanism employedin producing my improved fabric; Fig. 2, a detached sectional view; Fig.3,,a longitudinal section on the line 1 2, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a viewillustrating a modification.

Heretofore felt fabrics in imitation of woven fabrics have been producedby first printing the felt, and then subjecting it to the action ofrollers having A-shaped longitudinal ribs, which produce parallelindentations on the I face of the goods, giving the same the appeartweenthe creases.

Various means of carrying this operation into effect may be adoptedforinstance, a series of sharp-edged blades, 6, may be-attached to areciprocating carrier, A, which rises and falls as the fabric X passesbeneath the same.

I prefer, however, to use a roller, A, carrying radial blades z, havingparallel, or nearly parallel, sides, and arranged above a parallelplane-faced roller, 0, supported by suitable standards. As the bladespass into the fabric they condense those portions opposite their edges,and when theyare withdrawn the intermediate portions a, which have notbeen condensed, expand laterally to a slight extent, and prevent thecondensed portions from expanding, thus preserving the creases'made bythe blades, and producing a fabric in which compressed and uncondenscdportions alternate in parallel lines, producing the desired ribbedeffect.

Where it is desired to produce a blocked surface, as in Brussels carpet,transverse ribs 8 may be extended between the-blades i, so as toproduce. transverse indentations, which impart the desired resemblance.

I claim-- 1. The within-described mode of producing felt imitations ofwoven fabricsthat is, by compressing the printed felt fabric on parallellines by thin blades having parallel, or nearly parallel, sides, leavingintervening uncompressed portions, as set forth.

2. The combination, with a roller or carrier, of thin radial bladeshaving sides parallel, or nearly parallel, as set forth.

3. The transverse ribs or blades s, com bined with the parallel thinblades 73, as specified, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN F. GREENE. Witnesses:

'S. L. ROWLAND, CHARLES E. Fos'rER.

